Our National Parks exemplify the benefits & bounty of Socialism

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Clearly, there's something about Socialism that is attractive & fundamental to everyone.

I think holding up the NPS system and concluding they "exemplify the benefits & bounty of Socialism" is a bit of a stretch. Private, for-profit companies are subcontracted to manage the hospitality and food/bev operations in many of the highly trafficked parks.

yeah let's get some contracts to "free marketeers"

actually the only thing free-market about most of this shit is political connections, favors, and bribery, all the normal things.

 

YES TURTLE....so, we conclude that NPS is swampy.

I used to be a libertarian way back when, but then I heard their 1992 presidential candidate speak and he was talking with a straight face about selling Yellowstone to Disney.  No thank you.

I can still live with having privately run campgrounds and lodges if it means keeping the timber and mining industries out of the parks.   Thing about most national parks is they might seem crowded and commercialized in places, but get a 1000 yards down any trail and its whole different world.

Thank you Theodore Roosevelt. 

so i should be able to sling hotdogs at the statue of liberty 

or veggie burritos at yellowstone.

 

so does medicare and social security

That's Freedom DogsHippie.

And don't you forget it.

>>>veggie burritos at yellowstone

"143245 brah!"

I wanted to get that on a black California license plate but it's really not worth another $75/yr....

National forests make better lovers 

Clearly you are clueless as to what socialism is.  I don't recall a "means of production" associated with our national parks, other then the fact that it's a capitalistic system that supports them.

I love living in a capitalistic system that has a safety net for companies that are to big to faildevil

Clearly you are clueless as to what socialism is.  I don't recall a "means of production" associated with our national parks, other then the fact that it's a capitalistic system that supports them<<<

Are the zones and pockets of privatization in China not essentially capitalistic in nature? 

Thank you Theodore Roosevelt<<<

Yes.  In totality, his pen was responsible for what might be considered on par with the Louisiana purchase on the conservation front.

Private, for-profit companies are subcontracted to manage the hospitality and food/bev operations in many of the highly trafficked parks.<<<

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